Person with legal responsibility

Person in charge of EU relations

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation:

HLC is a strategy consulting firm specialised in public policy issues. Our clients are Fortune 500 companies or campaign groups.

Our focus is to help build public policy into the business planning processes. For some clients, policy issues may be peripheral. In other cases, they can be business critical. We work with clients to move beyond communications to wider planning, to ensure that they prepare for future change before their competitors, and contribute to the policy debate in advance of legislation.

Lobbying: In general, we work as overall advisors to our clients, engaging other agencies for implementation as needed. In certain cases, however, we also support the advocacy work of our clients directly. Currently lobbying represents less than 5% of our turnover. Details listed below.

Level of interests represented:

European

global

national

regional/local

Specific activities covered by the Register

Main EU initiatives, policies and legislative files followed by the organisation:

- healthcare- medical devices- chemicals- environment

Relevant policy implementation, public relations and communication activities such as projects, events and publications:

Pan-European public policy issues addressed by the EU institutions, principally European Commission and European Parliament.

Number of persons involved in the activities described in the box above

Number of persons involved from the organisation expressed in % of working time:

75%: 3

Number of persons involved:

3

Full time equivalent (FTE):

2.2

Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

First name

Surname

Start Date

End Date

Yuliya

Metodieva

28/10/2014

24/10/2015

Christina

Avani

10/07/2015

24/06/2016

Martina

Blackman

20/03/2015

18/09/2015

Federica

Pesce

20/03/2015

18/09/2015

Alberto

Mittestainer

23/09/2014

19/09/2015

Giacomo

Borgo

20/09/2014

18/09/2015

Margot

Harwood-Levitt

25/06/2015

23/06/2016

Joseph

Elborn

23/09/2014

19/09/2015

Frederick

van Mierlo

08/01/2015

06/01/2016

Fields of interest

The organisation's fields of interests are:

Agriculture and Rural Development

Climate Action

Competition

Consumer Affairs

Economic and Financial Affairs

Employment and Social Affairs

Energy

Enterprise

Environment

Fisheries and Aquaculture

Food Safety

General and Institutional Affairs

Information Society

Internal Market

Public Health

Research and Technology

Trade

Membership and affiliation

Member organisations:

Membership of any associations/(con)federations/networks or other bodies:

EPACA

Financial data

Financial year:

01/2014
-
01/2015

Estimate of the annual costs related to activities covered by the register:

25,000 € - 49,999 €

The annual turnover attributable to activities covered by the register:

< 99,999 €

Clients covered under financial estimate:

With the revenue of 10,000 € - 24,999
€:

Hospira

With the revenue of 25,000 € - 49,999
€:

Biogen Idec

Eucomed

Most recent financial information about funding received from the EU institutions:

No funding received from the EU institutions during the last closed financial year.

Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:

Given the absence of detailed rules from the European Commission, we have applied our best judgement about what is and is not considered EU lobbying. Whenever we work with clients on EU issues we have nonetheless included information on the register. Much of our work can include providing services and advice to clients unrelated to the European intuitions and so has been discounted from the register.

Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.

The organisation has also declared to be bound to the following other Code:
EPACA